Castleford train station

You can reach 28 stations directly from Castleford on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Leeds, with 74 trains a day.

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• 28 direct destinations
• 877th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free throughout
• 60 parking spaces
• 17 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Castleford

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

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Lines serving Castleford

Castleford is on the Normanton and Colton Junction Line and the Castleford and Pontefract Monkhill Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Castleford station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Castleford station on 138 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 25 paths on the Wednesday, 14 paths on the Saturday and 6 paths on the Sunday. 40 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 02:00 to 03:00 on the Tuesday, with 4 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Castleford station is

487,384 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 877th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 29,455 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Castleford and Leeds than any other pair: 273,316 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.

Sundays

Sunday is a different railway here: 20 stations instead of 28, a drop of about 29%. Saturday runs to 23.

Nearest other stations

• Glasshoughton 1.2 miles
• Pontefract Tanshelf 2.6 miles
• Pontefract Monkhill 2.7 miles
• Pontefract Baghill 3.1 miles
• Featherstone 3.1 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Castleford, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Castleford Cutsyke · 0.7 miles
• Ledston · 1.4 miles
• Methley South · 1.8 miles
• Methley Junction · 1.9 miles
• Bowers · 2.2 miles
• Altofts · 2.3 miles

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Facilities at Castleford station

Castleford is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.

Waiting room

Parking at Castleford station

• Station Car Park 60 spaces, 3 accessible
  £3.30 a day, £13.20 a week

Cycle parking: 10 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 August 2026.

Getting to Castleford station

Castleford station is in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M62 J32 (Castleford Interchange), 1.4 miles south-east.

17 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Beancroft Road Cambridge St.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Castleford station elsewhere

• National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
• Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
• Wikipedia the station's history
• OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from

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